After being in power for a decade in Telangana, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) is facing its first major electoral and existential challenge that is likely to have an indefinite impact on its future, though it has survived threats posed at it in the 2006 byelections and 2009 elections.
As it stands at the crossroads, the party leadership has its task cut out — asserting that it is still very much a formidable force, and at the same time containing desertions to its arch-rival the Congress.
As the party that spearheaded the Telangana Statehood movement for 14 years, and winning two consecutive Assembly elections after the State’s formation, the BRS expects to do well in the Parliamentary elections irrespective of the threat posed by the Congress and BJP.
